The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
He defied the army and navy . . . and they gave him a Court Martial!
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DVD Details
- 2.55:1 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN ASPECT RATIO
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 30, 2013
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gary Cooper | |
Performer: | Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery, Darren McGavin, Fred Clark, James Daly, Jack Lord, Peter Graves & Robert F. Simon | |
Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
Edited by | Folmar Blangsted | |
Screenwriting by | Milton Sperling & Emmett Lavery | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Produced by | Milton Sperling | |
Director of Photography: | Sam Leavitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Low-key and earnest but slow like molasses.
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TV Guide
The picture is a real kick in the shins for the cult of blind military obedience and the lesson which is laid on the line relates to Pearl Harbor.
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Variety
The only certainty that remains is the need to ask questions
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CinePassion
Rating: B- --
Though not one of Preminger's stronger films, it's still worth seeing this fact-based courtroom drama starring Gary Cooper.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
With Cooper as the crusading officer, one is never in any doubt as to the correctness and sincerity of his views (Mitchell was posthumously rehabilitated in 1947), while Steiger puts in one of his inimitably flashy performances as the prosecuting attorney
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Time Out
Away from the courtroom, the film is less riveting, though Cooper is consistently impressive.
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Film4
Rating: B --
The courtroom dramatics are the heart of the film and are done in a brilliant no-nonsense way.
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Product Description:
A courtroom drama based on the true story of an American general who was court-martialled for accusing the military of criminal negligence and incompetance. The time was 1925 and, in the wake of World War I, General Billy Mitchell considered the Army and Navy's failure to begin seriously building up the Air Force akin to treason. He said so publicly and, during the famous trial that followed, predicted a situation akin to the bombing of Pearl Harbor that would occur some two decades later.